Using Ping.Fm And Pingle to Make Microblogging, Twitter, and Facebook Even Easier

I know what you're thinking: Ping.fm? Pingle? Microblogging? Did you accidentally just stumble into some strange and foreign website?

The answer is no, you haven't. Microblogging is a real past-time (or in this case, a not-so-past-time) that has only now begun to gain some steam. With Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, and other social networks growing out of control, microblogging was only the next step, and Ping.fm and Pingle have stepped in to rush microblogging to the forefront.

What is microblogging, and what do Twitter and Facebook have to do with it?
Before explaining the work of Ping.fm and Pingle, it is important to get a basic understanding of what microblogging is and where it has come from.

Most people are at least somewhat familiar with Twitter by now. Twitter is the foremost microblogging site in existence. With its 140-character limit, people and organizations constantly update their lives and work on Twitter. Twitter has even recently begun to replace the traditional media news due to its up-to-the-minute, rapid-fire nature.

This is microblogging at its finest. People and organizations send out short bursts of information that they would like to communicate to their followers on a regular basis. Facebook has jumped into the mix as well with its status updates, giving a more limited forum for microblogging.

So what is happening with all this microblogging on Facebook, Twitter, and the like, and what does it have to do with Ping.fm and Pingle?
Microbloggers who really want their information to reach a large audience, whether it be all of their friends or all of their fans, have to do a little bit of work to communicate even those short bursts of information on Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress blogs, Xanga, Delicious, Diigo, etc. Ok, not a little work...a LOT of work.

Enter Ping.fm and its mobile counterpart, Pingle. Ping.fm is a site which allows users to write one post, Facebook status, Twitter tweet, blog, link, picture, location, or microblog and send it to nearly every social networking site imaginable.

Once the 15-minute setup for Ping.fm and Pingle is complete, users have free roam and can engage in their microblogging without having to worry that they might be missing out on a portion of their target audience. Ping.fm frees up an incredible amount of time for those who had been updating and posting links on the various Twitters and Facebooks of the world by allowing them to do it once and forget about it.

Pingle takes the power of the Ping.fm service and places it in the iPhone user's hands as well. With Pingle, microblogging to multiple sites can take place on the go, instantaneously. I was genuinely shocked at how quickly my iPhone was able to post to Facebook, Twitter, Xanga, and Wordpress all with one status.

As microblogging grows in popularity, Ping.fm and Pingle will simplify the microblogger's life, and make promotion and sharing even easier. For those of you looking to promote your content but lacking the time, try Ping.fm and Pingle. You'll be happy you did.

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